You taught me that happiness depends on wealth.
And I saw you in a house of riches, so poor, and distraught,
There was no happiness there. I was caught in-between.
Somewhere I heard that love is what keeps us going, saves us,
And I gazed at you again and found the absence of it, the neglect.
I ran in never-ending circles, tasting the salt of my tears embedding
My face that feels alien, you catch me from within myself.
You take me back, shove and push me around,
I can’t find life within me, love within me, worth within me.
You created me and you became a thief.
What would have been golden in my heart
Rotted away in your hands. You promised me a nest and
Handed me a spider’s web.
Abandoned me there, hollow-hearted.
“Christabel Cockerell, Lady Frampton” by Arthur Hacker (1858-1919)
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
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